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These Secret Files Show How The Trump Moscow Talks Unfolded While Trump Heaped Praise On PutinAhead of Michael Cohenís testimony, read the original paper trail behind the campaign to build Europeís tallest tower in Moscow ó and how it played out alongside Donald Trumpís presidential campaign.

Last updated on February 5, 2019, at 4:15 p.m. ET
Posted on February 5, 2019, at 9:20 a.m. ET

As a candidate, Donald Trump had a lot of praise for Vladimir Putin ó and no business, he kept insisting, in Russia. These documents tell a different story.

When Michael Cohen, the presidentís former lawyer and longtime fixer, testifies before Congress this week, one topic that is likely to be front and center is his work on Trump Moscow, the over-the-top luxury real estate venture he helped spearhead leading up to the election.

The development, which was never built, has already become a focus for special counsel Robert Muellerís investigation into potential collusion between Trump and Russia during the 2016 campaign. And when Cohen was convicted last November of lying to Congress, it was over his false testimony that the deal had fizzled in January 2016, well before Trump emerged as the Republican nominee.

BuzzFeed News is today publishing a cache of internal Trump Organization documents that lay bare the secret negotiations that continued long after Cohen claimed the deal had been abandoned. The documents, many of which have been exclusively obtained by BuzzFeed News, reveal that ó despite Trumpís claim that the development was never more than a passing notion ó the effort to get the tower built was long-running, detail-oriented, and directly entwined with the ups and downs of his campaign.

As Trump went from rally to rally, vociferously denying any dealings in Russia, his representatives, Michael Cohen and his associate Felix Sater, worked with Trump Organization lawyers and even Ivanka Trump to push forward negotiations to build a 100-story edifice just miles from the Kremlin. The fixers believed they needed Putinís support to pull off the lucrative deal, and they planned to use Trumpís public praise for him to help secure it. At the same time, they plotted to persuade Putin to openly declare his support for Trumpís candidacy. ďIf he says it we own this election,Ē Sater wrote to Cohen.

The White House did not respond to a detailed request for comment on this story. The special counselís office declined to comment.

This large trove of nonbinding business agreements, architectural renderings, texts, emails, and plans for Trump to travel to Russia to meet Putin offer an unprecedented glimpse inside the negotiations to build the tallest tower in Europe ó a deal Trumpís fixers hoped would "help world peace and make a lot of money."

These Secret Files Show How The Trump Moscow Talks Unfolded While Trump Heaped Praise On PutinAhead of Michael Cohenís testimony, read the original paper trail behind the campaign to build Europeís tallest tower in Moscow ó and how it played out alongside Donald Trumpís presidential campaign.

Last updated on February 5, 2019, at 4:15 p.m. ET
Posted on February 5, 2019, at 9:20 a.m. ET

As a candidate, Donald Trump had a lot of praise for Vladimir Putin ó and no business, he kept insisting, in Russia. These documents tell a different story.

When Michael Cohen, the presidentís former lawyer and longtime fixer, testifies before Congress this week, one topic that is likely to be front and center is his work on Trump Moscow, the over-the-top luxury real estate venture he helped spearhead leading up to the election.

The development, which was never built, has already become a focus for special counsel Robert Muellerís investigation into potential collusion between Trump and Russia during the 2016 campaign. And when Cohen was convicted last November of lying to Congress, it was over his false testimony that the deal had fizzled in January 2016, well before Trump emerged as the Republican nominee.

BuzzFeed News is today publishing a cache of internal Trump Organization documents that lay bare the secret negotiations that continued long after Cohen claimed the deal had been abandoned. The documents, many of which have been exclusively obtained by BuzzFeed News, reveal that ó despite Trumpís claim that the development was never more than a passing notion ó the effort to get the tower built was long-running, detail-oriented, and directly entwined with the ups and downs of his campaign.

As Trump went from rally to rally, vociferously denying any dealings in Russia, his representatives, Michael Cohen and his associate Felix Sater, worked with Trump Organization lawyers and even Ivanka Trump to push forward negotiations to build a 100-story edifice just miles from the Kremlin. The fixers believed they needed Putinís support to pull off the lucrative deal, and they planned to use Trumpís public praise for him to help secure it. At the same time, they plotted to persuade Putin to openly declare his support for Trumpís candidacy. ďIf he says it we own this election,Ē Sater wrote to Cohen.

The White House did not respond to a detailed request for comment on this story. The special counselís office declined to comment.

This large trove of nonbinding business agreements, architectural renderings, texts, emails, and plans for Trump to travel to Russia to meet Putin offer an unprecedented glimpse inside the negotiations to build the tallest tower in Europe ó a deal Trumpís fixers hoped would "help world peace and make a lot of money."

I state all 4 options, even though #1 is the only one that can lead to any action like impeachment.

If anything, Trump deserves kudos and praise for understanding that if he had pushed forward, he would have run the risk of being in a compromising position. He didnít; in the meanwhile, Cohen could well have benn a sleazo who tried to continue to profit from a deal that wasnít, because he was spending so many billable hours on it, perhaps without the huge payday at the end that he was expecting. Maybe Trumpís candidacy was a financial catastrophe for Cohen and heís now lashing out, in order to keep funds coming in and keep his hooker lifestyle up.

I hesitate to characterize before you've had a chance to read the source material.

"Where is that needle?"

"It's right over there in that haystack."

No, Guy, if the document you cited reveals crime on the part of Trump, you should be able to say on which page the document reveals it. If you can't do that, then your original post is no better than the rest of yours.